What happens when a long-time clicker trainer, specializing primarily in dogs, adopts a small herd of bovines? A new learning adventure begins! Targeting, offering behavior, and participating in medical care—just like zoo animals, cows are excellent learners. Join ClickerExpo faculty member Sarah Owings as she shares some of her current training projects with Pickle, Clover, Tati, and Ferdinand with real-time observations and coaching from Ken Ramirez and Emelie Johnson Vegh.

Things we may explore:

• How to arrange the training environment for clarity and safety,
• Bovine body language: how to recognize when an animal is comfortable in the training environment,
• How to test whether your marker signal is a salient secondary reinforcer,
• the Collaborative-coaching process using performance—feedback—revision. 

Plus, anything Sarah’s cow friends are interested in teaching us that day!